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Microplastics and nanoplastics size distribution in farmed mussel tissues
Communications Earth & Environment2024
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Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Cosimino Malitesta,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Dušan Materić
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Silvia Fraissinet,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Cosimino Malitesta,
Silvia Fraissinet,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Rupert Holzinger,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Rupert Holzinger,
Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto,
Rupert Holzinger,
Dušan Materić
Summary
Researchers analyzed farmed mussels from Italy and detected microplastics and nanoplastics in every single sample, with nanoplastics (particles smaller than 1 micrometer) present in concerning quantities. They estimated that Europeans eating seafood regularly could ingest more than 2 milligrams of nanoplastics per year — establishing an important baseline for tracking this form of pollution in our food supply.
Abstract Microplastics and nanoplastics are hazardous to ecosystems, wildlife, and through seafood, also for human health. Due to biological, chemical, and physical characteristics, nanoplastics can slip through cell membranes, being even more toxicologically important than microplastics. Thermal Desorption - Proton Transfer Reaction - Mass Spectrometry was used to analyze mussels from the Apulian region, Italy. All the analyzed organisms have plastics (values ranging from 10 to 187 ng of microplastics and nanoplastics per dry weight mg). The highest mass of plastics was detected in the size groups >2.2 µm (218 ng per dry weight mg) and 20–200 nm (187 ng per dry weight mg). Upscaling data we estimated that people in Europe could ingest more than 2 mg of nanoplastics per year through seafood consumption. The detected presence of nanoplastics in farmed mussels here presented contributes to establishing a baseline for monitoring these pollutants.